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  • proper noun The central island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia.
  • proper noun The Polynesian language of the Gambier Islands.

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Examples

  • No, Mangareva is the nearest place for your purpose.

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  • No, Mangareva is the nearest place for your purpose.

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  • No, Mangareva is the nearest place for your purpose.

    The Seed of McCoy 1909

  • The same breeze will carry your boats to Mangareva if the ship burns out from under.

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  • Let me see, if she keeps up that gait, we'll sight Mangareva between eight and nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

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  • I think it would be better to square away for Mangareva.

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  • "But it is only a twenty-four hour run to Mangareva," the captain objected.

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  • When Captain Davenport had explained the situation and announced his intention of running for Mangareva, an uproar broke out.

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  • "Yes, Captain," he said, with the same quiet unconcern with which he would have accepted an invitation to dinner; "I'll go with you to Mangareva."

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  • "Mangareva it is, then," said Captain Davenport, interrupting the mate's growling objection.

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